Empties - V2

[scott1201]

Seeing product empties is so satisfying 🙂

Post your weekly, monthly, quarterly, whenever-ly empties and let us know how you felt about them!

Previous Empties thread:

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https://community.sephora.com/t5/Insiders/Empties/m-p/589003

[Cissy63]

@lmaster  Wow, loads of masking.  Wonderful job!

[lmaster]

Thank you so much!! @Cissy63 ☺️

[missjeanie]

@lmaster Great start to the year!  Your skin must be loving all the masking!

[lmaster]

Absolutely!! Thank you @missjeanie 

[curlychiquita]

Wow, that is great, @lmaster! 

[lmaster]

Thank you darlin @curlychiquita 

[ather]

@lmaster  Great job!! Look at you getting through masks!! 

[lmaster]

Thank you so much!! @ather 😘

[Mellmars1185]

@lmaster Awesome job on empties. You finished your pistachio candle! Great goal for the year.

[lmaster]

@Mellmars1185 thank you love!! I do have one more of the pistachio candles left, that will be hoarded until further notice 🤣

[CynthieLu]

Wow, 57 to start of the year! 🥳 Great job @lmaster That's a fabulous start! 👌 

I felt similarly about the primer by UD, It was a total miss ‌‌😅‌‌

[lmaster]

@CynthieLu thank you, I do not understand the hype, not one little bit 😂

[JoSometimes]

Wow! Amazing job emptying all of those @lmaster!

Also, the teacher side of me can’t seem to shy away from a math problem. 57 empties this month keeps you on track to fulfill your goal of 600 by the end of the year!

[lmaster]

@JoSometimes aww thanks! Some months are not this good 🤣 I'm trying to keep a realistic goal this year

[itsfi]

January 2023 Empties

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I love every product here. The Olaplex shampoo and conditioner and the Sol de Janeiro are repeated repurchases and are beauties I've frequently gifted to others as well, which is particularly poetic with respect to the Olaplex, as they were part of my very first gratis (thank you, @TeamBIC)! The Tower 28 and Saie sunscreen are on the top of my list for the spring sale and the Ilia serum foundation will like follow suit in the fall, though I wouldn't be surprised if one or all 3 were repurchased before those timeframes. The peach hand soap was a purhcase enabled by @Shosh85 a while ago. It has a delicious peach scent.

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The Biossance and Rose Inc treats are good; I like them when my skin is more on the oilier side and can see myself purchasing a full size of both when the weather warms up. The Nature Lab scalp scrub was fine but I have plenty of hair care products, including hair scrubs, to make my way through first. I'm on the fence about the Mara Universal Face Oil;  I have and have tried a number of face oils and this one was fine enough but not a standout for me vis-a-vis other face oils. 

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Two sheet masks didn't make it to the photo shoot. 😉 Of the ones pictured, all but the honey mask pack are ones I'd repurchase. The Dr. Jart is a dream for dry or damaged skin and one that I'm loving this winter. It's one I plan to always have on hand in my stash.

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January was a good month for candles. I focused on using up my candles that were already in use and held off on lighting new ones until I got through most of them. All 3 of the Voluspa candles are repurchase-worthy and the same goes for the Nest Grapefruit candle. The Fovr Mood duo smells lovely paired together; alone, my preference is for Sip Happens. 

I'll do my usual breakdown of my empties by category on a quarterly basis, but for now, as of the end of January, my total empties count is: 

MTD / YTD: 32 empties

[Cissy63]

@itsfi   Good use of products.  And so many candles!  Good for you 😃

[itsfi]

@Cissy63, thank you. It’s been good to work all the way through these candles. 👍🏼 

[missjeanie]

@itsfi Your candle use in January!!  Dang!  I'm a fan of those Dr. Jart masks as well.  They're so nice this time of year. 

[itsfi]

lol @missjeanie. I was committed to making use of my candles. And not having so many in various states of use - 3/4 used, half used, 1/8th used etc. I grabbed a handful of them and just treated them like I do my foundation when I’m doing a shop my stash - only pull out 3 or 4 and then work through them until I finish or grow tired of them and then swap them out for other ones. Rinse and repeat. 😂 It seems to be working, since I finished a lot of candles last month and have made some significant progress on some foundations too. I like this win-win thing! 😉 😘 

[missjeanie]

@itsfi I need to do this with foundations!!

[itsfi]

@missjeanie, definitely give it a try. It’s helped me work through my foundations. I decluttered a lot of foundations a couple years ago so the ones I have in my stash are ones I either like or love, but I still find that I have a bunch in varying states of use and that really is not necessary, you know?! 😆

So, if there’s no foundation in my project pan (none this year), I pull out 3-5 that I plan to rotate through most of the time for 4-8 weeks depending on my mood, and then I revisit it, sometimes taking out a few and subbing in others; other times rotating them all out for another group of base products. If I have an event and I want to use a foundation not in the mix, not a problem. I just reach for it, use it and put it back. Or if I’m like “ohhh, I like this a lot.” I’ll take a foundation out and add that one to the mix. What is it that thing that was really popular a while back, maybe it still is … having a capsule wardrobe. I do that but with my foundations. 😉